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the photo that Eagle has posted has his name in the English as dt says T. this is not unusual as I have seen last names appear in strange ways in the official Luftwaffe mag Der Adler

should be Heinz Schmidt who had 173 kills not 174 missing in action with 2 Soviet fighters in his Bf 109G-6 yellow 7 wrk nummer 15903. As he was a Leutnant he was posthumously given the rank of Hauptmann. Heinz had 700 missions to his credit